IVE Just Made K-Pop History With BANG BANG. The Numbers Are Staggering.

IVE just rewrote K-pop history. On February 24, 2026, at 1:30 PM KST, Instiz iChart officially confirmed that "BANG BANG" had achieved a Perfect All-Kill, sweeping every major Korean domestic music chart simultaneously. That makes it the first K-pop song of 2026 to reach the milestone. More importantly, it makes IVE the first girl group in the history of Korean pop music to earn Perfect All-Kills with six different songs.

What Is a Perfect All-Kill?

A Perfect All-Kill, or PAK, is the highest chart distinction in the Korean music industry. A song earns it by holding the No. 1 position simultaneously across every major domestic platform: the real-time, daily, and Top 100 charts on Melon, plus the daily charts on Genie, Bugs, and YouTube Music Korea, as well as FLO, VIBE, and iChart. The final requirement is topping iChart's weekly chart, which separates a Perfect All-Kill from a standard all-kill. In short, a PAK means total chart domination, everywhere, at the same time. Achieving one is rare. Achieving six is something else entirely.

Six Songs, Six Records

IVE did not simply earn their sixth Perfect All-Kill with "BANG BANG." They set a speed record alongside it. The group, managed by Starship Entertainment, debuted in December 2021 and reached six PAK songs in just over four years and two months. That is the fastest any artist in K-pop history has ever hit that mark.

Here is the full timeline of IVE's six Perfect All-Kill songs:

1. "After LIKE" (2022): their first PAK, arriving in their debut year
2. "Kitsch" (2023): the first Perfect All-Kill of 2023
3. "I AM" (2023): PAK number three, making IVE the first group to score two PAKs within three weeks
4. "Baddie" (2023): the first time any group had achieved three PAKs in a single calendar year
5. "REBEL HEART" (2025): the song that made them the first girl group to reach five PAK songs
6. "BANG BANG" (2026): the record-breaker, the sixth, the title no girl group has ever held

Each milestone was a record in itself. The sixth is the capstone.

The Exclusive Club

Before "BANG BANG," only two artists in K-pop history had ever earned Perfect All-Kills with six different songs: IU, Korea's biggest solo artist, and BIGBANG, the legendary group whose influence on the genre's global rise is hard to overstate. IVE now stands alongside them as the third act, and the first group, to reach this number.

That context is worth sitting with. IU built her catalogue over more than a decade. BIGBANG defined an era of K-pop that shaped everything that followed. IVE matched their chart record in four years.

Shutting Down the "Fading" Narrative

Online discourse had been building a "fading group" narrative around IVE in the months before this comeback. It is the kind of fan-community friction that targets any act whose promotional cadence slows, and it circulated through comment sections throughout 2025. "BANG BANG" has put that conversation to rest. A pre-release track, not even the album's main single, achieved the first Perfect All-Kill of 2026 and broke a record no girl group had ever touched. That is not a group in decline. That is a group at its peak.

REVIVE+ and What Comes Next

"BANG BANG" is a pre-release from REVIVE+, IVE's second full-length album, which dropped on February 23, 2026. The album's main title track, "BLACKHOLE," and the broader project have been topping global charts, with REVIVE+ reaching No. 1 on YouTube and iTunes internationally at launch. For the full breakdown of the comeback, see our coverage of the REVIVE+ release.

Jang Wonyoung, An Yujin, Gaeul, Rei, Liz, and Leeseo are now the members of the only girl group in K-pop history with six Perfect All-Kills. That sentence did not exist before February 24.